Most recent 40 articles: canarymedia
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This California city is trading an old gas plant for a giant grid battery - canarymedia (Apr 4) |
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Apr 4 · MENIFEE, California - For a decade, twin smokestacks loomed against the bright blue skies of Menifee, in Southern California’s Inland Empire. But the old gas combustion plant came down, and on the flat industrial site it left behind an army of batteries is now being assembled.
When it comes online this summer, developer Calpine’s Nova power bank will store more electricity than all but one battery plant currently operating in the U.S. The billion-dollar project, with 680 megawatts and 2,720 megawatt-hours, will help California shift its nation-leading solar generation into the critical evening and nighttime hours, bolstering the grid against the heat waves that have pushed it ... Read more ...
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How to electrify trucking in the US, one step at a time - canarymedia (Mar 21) |
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Mar 21 · The U.S. doesn’t need massive truck charging depots on every major highway to meet federal climate goals. It just needs enough on the right highways - the ones where electric trucks are poised to take off the earliest - at the right time.
That’s why the Biden administration has launched a national strategy to identify the highest-priority freight hubs and corridors - and to get states, utilities and the truck manufacturing and freight-hauling industries on board.
Several research studies show that this approach can help manufacturers and freight companies comply with rules the Biden administration is expected to announce in the next few weeks for decarbonizing the ... Read more ...
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CarbonCapture wants to take carbon removal down the cost curve - canarymedia (Mar 14) |
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Mar 14 · When CarbonCapture emerged from stealth mode in 2021, the Los Angeles–based startup had a unique vision for carbon removal: small-scale, modular devices that would be hauled around the country on the back of flatbed trucks. Customers could order a few or many modules, adding more over time, to pull carbon dioxide directly from the sky. Then they’d either it bury the CO2 underground or use to make industrial products, like low-carbon concrete.
Now, CarbonCapture is zeroing in on a more familiar plan: building a massive array of CO2-sucking machines and injecting the planet-warming gas into deep geologic formations.
This week, the company said it had raised $80 million ... Read more ...
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How safe are LNG terminals? Nearby communities have no way of knowing - canarymedia (Mar 7) |
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Mar 7 · During a summer’s afternoon in 2022, a 450-foot fireball exploded at a liquefied natural gas terminal south of Houston, rocking sunbathers on Quintana Beach, adjacent to the Freeport LNG terminal, and rattling homes for miles around.
Twenty-one months later, residents around the plant have yet to receive any information directly from Freeport LNG about what caused the explosion or what to do if it were to happen again, said Melanie Oldham, one of the founders of Better Brazoria, an environmental and public-health advocacy group who felt the blast in her living room, 3 miles from the terminal.
John Allaire frequently hears the internal alarms go off at Venture Global’s ... Read more ...
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One big downside of LNG exports: Price swings for US gas consumers - canarymedia (Mar 6) |
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Mar 6 · Electricity bills in Louisiana didn’t use to fluctuate based on geopolitical turmoil on the other side of the world. But when Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022 and kicked off a fossil gas shortage in Europe, the reverberations hit home in the Gulf Coast parishes that depend on the fuel for electricity, cooking and hot water.
The Ukraine invasion prompted European companies to pay top dollar to replace the gas they had been getting from Russian pipelines. Much of the new supply came from the United States. European buyers, backed by wartime subsidies, made gas a much hotter commodity than it had been in years - globally and locally in the U.S.
Gas prices kept rising ... Read more ...
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She's a clean-energy pro. Electrifying her home was still a slog - canarymedia (Mar 4) |
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Mar 4 · Canary Media’s Electrified Life column shares real-world tales, tips and insights to demystify what individuals can do to shift their homes and lives to clean electric power.
Cutting fossil fuels out of our homes and commutes can be a formidable challenge. But the climate dividends would be huge: more than 40 percent of U.S. energy emissions come from our appliances, home energy sources and cars, according to electrification nonprofit Rewiring America.
In 2022, Judy Ko decided to take up the challenge and start electrifying her 1965 San Francisco home. The principal of climatetech consultancy LK Hillside admits that, even though she’s a clean-energy expert, the project ... Read more ...
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Inside the fight to stop LNG export projects in South Texas - canarymedia (Feb 28) |
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Feb 28 · Maria Gallucci is a senior reporter at Canary Media. She covers emerging clean energy technologies and efforts to electrify transportation and decarbonize heavy industry.
See more scenes from South Texas in this companion photo essay.
CAMERON COUNTY, Texas - Juan Mancias and I are sitting in his Dodge Ram pickup truck when a sharp jolt shakes him in his seat. The truck is stuck in deep muck on an unpaved road in southeastern Texas, and a rugged Jeep is trying to pull us out. With another forceful yank, the vehicle frees the Dodge. From my seat behind Mancias, I find my belongings flung on the floor.
Mancias is chair of the Carrizo/?Comecrudo Tribe of Texas, an ... Read more ...
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Chart: Is LNG worse for the climate than coal? - canarymedia (Jan 26) |
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Jan 26 · Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format.
Conventional wisdom has long been that it’s better for the planet to burn fossil gas for electricity than it is to burn coal.
But when it comes to liquefied natural gas - the transportable form of fossil gas - that may not be true. New research finds that the life-cycle emissions from LNG are actually worse than those of burning coal and burning gas domestically.
Although coal-to-gas switching has helped reduce emissions from the U.S. power sector over the past couple of decades, those benefits evaporate once the fuel is liquefied and shipped around the ... Read more ...
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Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row - canarymedia (Nov 15) |
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Nov 15 · One recent autumn afternoon, I watched the Atlantic gusts collide with the cliffs that rise above Nazaré, Portugal. Rain pelted down, and the world-renowned swells rose into walls of water that even the most death-defying surfers reach only via Jet Ski. For me, this looked like a rained-out, late-season beach getaway, but for the sliver of Iberia that is Portugal, it looked like a bright future. That weekend, the nation of 10 million ran on nothing but wind, solar and hydropower.
As it turned out, those rainy, blustery days were just a warmup. Portugal produced more than enough renewable power to serve all its customers for six straight days, from October 31 to November ... Read more ...
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Kauai became a clean energy leader. Its secret? A publicly owned grid - canarymedia (Nov 7) |
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Nov 7 · Julian Spector is senior reporter at Canary Media.
LIHUE, Hawaii - It’s hard to find anywhere in the United States that has greened its electricity supply as quickly as verdant Kauai. And the people of Kauai achieved that on their own, through collective ownership of the electricity grid, not by hoping profit-maximizing utilities find a way to balance the urgency of human-caused climate change with quarterly dividends for shareholders.
Kauai used to have a Wall Street–owned, for-profit utility, much like roughly 70% of U.S. electricity customers. But the island’s grid infrastructure took a beating from Hurricane Iniki in 1992, and the utility, Citizens Utilities Company ... Read more ...
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The world's largest low-carbon steel plant moves closer to completion - canarymedia (Sep 08, 2023) |
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Sep 08, 2023 · A plan to build the world’s first large-scale green steel plant just moved closer to becoming a reality.
H2 Green Steel, the company behind the groundbreaking project in Sweden, has raised a €1.5 billion ($1.6 billion) equity round. It’s a major step forward for the years-long effort to decarbonize the steelmaking industry, which is responsible for between 7 and 9 percent of human-caused global carbon emissions.
The new round of funding is ?“one of the last pieces in the puzzle” of financing necessary to complete the project, H2 Green Steel CEO Henrik Henriksson told Bloomberg in an interview. The money will allow H2 to begin building at its site in the northern Sweden ... Read more ...
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US offshore wind pushes ahead despite industry turmoil - canarymedia (Aug 24, 2023) |
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Aug 24, 2023 · The United States is about to expand its offshore wind ambitions into brand new territory. Next week, the Biden administration is set to hold the first-ever auction for offshore wind leases in the Gulf of Mexico, opening up large swaths of water between New Orleans and Houston to potentially gigawatts’ worth of renewable energy development.
The August 29 auction comes at a deeply ambivalent moment for offshore wind. On the one hand, there’s unprecedented interest in the emerging U.S. industry, which has high potential but so far generates enough electricity to power just 20,000 American homes. On the other hand, developers are facing dire financial conditions that are ... Read more ...
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Chart: The US is now exporting more LNG than ever before - canarymedia (Jul 14, 2023) |
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Jul 14, 2023 · Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format.
While the Biden administration touts the success of the Inflation Reduction Act and its other clean energy accomplishments, a contradictory trend is quietly unfolding: The U.S. is exporting record-breaking amounts of liquefied natural gas. In April, the country sent more LNG abroad than in any other month, ever - a milestone that contrasts sharply with the global need to stop burning planet-warming fossil fuels.
The rise in U.S. LNG exports has in turn helped drive an increase in global trade of the fuel, which last year rose to record-high volumes. Global LNG ... Read more ...
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Natural gas is the pillar of the US electric grid - canarymedia (Jul 05, 2023) |
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Jul 05, 2023 · Canary Media’s Down to the Wire column tackles the more complicated challenges of decarbonizing our energy systems.
Willie Phillips, chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, knows the U.S. has a ?“reliability gap” between its electricity system and its fossil gas system, one that’s played a role in causing major wintertime grid outages in the past decade and threatens to wreak even more havoc in years to come.
But he’s not sure how to solve it.
“People treat these two systems as if they’re different,” Phillips said during a FERC regular monthly meeting this June dedicated to grid reliability. But as fossil gas has become the top source of U.S. electricity ... Read more ...
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Inside Charm Industrial's multimillion-dollar bid to remove CO2 with plants - canarymedia (Jun 19, 2023) |
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Jun 19, 2023 · After every corn harvest, America’s farmers reap roughly 100 million tons of ?“stover” - the stalks, leaves, silks and husks that remain after the golden-kernel crop is gathered. Some residues are typically left behind to nourish the soil. The rest can be used to generate energy or produce biofuels for cars, trucks and, increasingly, airplanes.
But Charm Industrial wants this corn detritus for entirely different reasons.
The San Francisco-based startup is using leftover corn stover and other types of biomass waste to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Its machines heat up plant matter - which contains carbon - and turn it into a dark-brown, viscous material known ... Read more ...
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Large swaths of the US grid could be vulnerable to blackouts this summer - canarymedia (Jun 19, 2023) |
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Jun 19, 2023 · This story originally appeared in Eos magazine and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.
This summer, as much as two-thirds of the United States could be in danger of electricity outages should temperatures drift higher than normal, according to a forecast by the nation’s electrical-grid oversight body.
The 2023 summer forecast from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), a nonprofit organization that maintains standards for grid reliability, shows that large swaths of the West, South, Central Plains, Upper Midwest, New England and Texas could face blackouts if soaring ... Read more ...
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Berkeley's landmark gas ban overturned, ripple effects may be limited - canarymedia (Apr 18, 2023) |
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Apr 18, 2023 · A federal appeals court has tossed out Berkeley, California’s pioneering legislation to ban fossil gas hookups in new buildings. But the ruling, which came Monday, isn’t expected to affect most other policies adopted by U.S. cities and states to limit gas consumption in new homes, offices and commercial buildings, experts say.
That’s mainly because the ruling applies to the specific way Berkeley structured its gas-hookup ban - by using its authority to regulate residents’ health and safety. More than 100 municipalities across the country have passed policies to curb planet-warming emissions from buildings, though only about 25 cities in California have followed Berkeley’s ... Read more ...
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The DOE doubles its SolSmart program, with an aim to boost local solar - canarymedia (Apr 03, 2023) |
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Apr 03, 2023 · Edith Makra and team have been hard at work putting a new solar-power-focused spin on the old ?“think global, act local” maxim.
Since 2017, her two-person office at the Illinois-based Metropolitan Mayors Caucus has been helping more than 50 Chicago-area cities, towns and villages that want to expand access to local solar power via SolSmart, a Department of Energy–funded program.
Plenty of communities in Illinois wanted to participate, Makra said. In 2018, more than 100 members of the caucus had signed on to a broad sustainability pledge and were looking for ?“opportunities to do something” to boost solar adoption without making major capital investments or taxing already ... Read more ...
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Bay Area officials vote to ditch new gas furnaces and water heaters - canarymedia (Mar 17, 2023) |
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Mar 17, 2023 · The San Francisco Bay Area has become one of the largest U.S. districts to limit the use of gas-burning appliances in homes and buildings.
This week, the region’s air pollution regulators agreed to phase out gas-fueled furnaces and water heaters by requiring that new appliances have zero emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) starting in 2027. Nearly 90 percent of the area’s residential NOx emissions come from burning gas for space and water heating - contributing more of the smog-forming, health-harming pollutant than do passenger vehicles.
“The 1.8 million water heaters and furnaces in the Bay Area significantly impact our air quality, resulting in dozens of early deaths ... Read more ...
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How climate tech incubators rallied to help startups after SVB collapse - canarymedia (Mar 17, 2023) |
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Mar 17, 2023 · Climatetech incubators and startup accelerators help entrepreneurs turn their fledgling ideas into products and technologies by serving as early-stage investors, mentors and networkers that connect newcomers to more established firms. In recent days, however, such programs have taken on another role: crisis manager.
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank last Friday sent shockwaves through the U.S. economy and the clean energy industry in particular. More than 1,500 companies working on climate-focused technologies had their money tied up in the financial institution - including climatetech startups that suddenly had to worry about being forced to shut down just as they were ... Read more ...
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Georgia's big new nuclear reactors could be the last built in the US - canarymedia (Mar 13, 2023) |
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Mar 13, 2023 · The first new nuclear reactor built in the U.S. in the last 30 years reached a milestone last week that brings it tantalizingly close to syncing up with the electrical grid and generating power for customers. But this is not the dawn of the long-threatened nuclear renaissance - it’s more like the swan song of the conventional nuclear industry in the U.S.
Vogtle 3, one of a pair of 1,100-megawatt nuclear reactors being constructed by Georgia Power (and several other regional utilities), has reached ?“initial criticality,” the utility announced last week. That ominous-sounding phrase means that plant operators have safely started a self-sustaining nuclear fission reaction inside ... Read more ...
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We know gas stoves have health risks. What about other gas appliances? - canarymedia (Mar 13, 2023) |
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Mar 13, 2023 · This story originally appeared in Yale Climate Connections and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.
Poor air quality is a long-standing problem in Los Angeles, where the first major outbreak of smog during World War II was so intense that some residents thought the city had been attacked by chemical weapons. Cars were eventually discovered to be a leading cause of smog, but they weren’t the only ones. In 1978, the regional air-quality authority created regulations aimed at reducing pollution from a surprising source: gas-powered water heaters found in homes throughout the city.
Gas stoves have ... Read more ...
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‘High-quality' carbon-removal tech will be focus for new industry group - canarymedia (Mar 10, 2023) |
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Mar 10, 2023 · This story was first published by Grist.
Eight years ago, the field of carbon removal amounted to a handful of academic lab projects and a few fledgling companies working on a novel concept: sucking carbon out of the atmosphere.
That was when Giana Amador, then an undergrad at the University of California, Berkeley, founded a nonprofit called Carbon180 with another student, Noah Deich. They hoped to convince policymakers and the climate community that reversing carbon emissions - in addition to reducing them - was essential to limiting the worst impacts of climate change.
A lot has changed since then. Scientists have become more outspoken about the need for carbon ... Read more ...
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Here's the good and bad news on the US clean energy transition - canarymedia (Mar 01, 2023) |
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Mar 01, 2023 · In key sectors of the U.S. economy, the transition to clean energy is well underway. It’s just not happening fast enough to forestall the worst impacts of climate change.
That’s the overriding message of the 2023 Sustainable Energy in America Factbook released Wednesday. The joint project of BloombergNEF and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy has been tracking global and national energy-transition trends since 2013. Its latest report indicates that 2022 was another record-breaking year for the growth of renewable energy, electric vehicles and other key decarbonization technologies.
Over the past decade, renewable energy has moved from the fringe to the center of ... Read more ...
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Meet the heat pump: An old technology that's the future of home heating - canarymedia (Feb 28, 2023) |
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Feb 28, 2023 · This story originally appeared in Knowable Magazine and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.
It was an engineering problem that had bugged Zhibin Yu for years - but now he had the perfect chance to fix it. Stuck at home during the first U.K. lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic, the thermal engineer suddenly had all the time he needed to refine the efficiency of heat pumps: electrical devices that, as their name implies, move heat from the outdoors into people’s homes.
The pumps are much more efficient than gas heaters, but standard models that absorb heat from the air are prone to icing up, which ... Read more ...
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Inside the software running Sunrun's home solar-battery fleets - canarymedia (Feb 21, 2023) |
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Feb 21, 2023 · Rooftop solar systems, backup batteries, electric-vehicle chargers and smart thermostats and appliances make up the building blocks of virtual power plants. But developing the software that can turn thousands of these home energy devices into reliable power grid resources isn’t easy. In fact, it can take decades to perfect.
Just ask Chris Wright, senior vice president of software technology and product at Lunar Energy. As co-founder of Moixa, the U.K.-based startup that was acquired by Lunar Energy in 2021, he’s spent nearly 20 years working on batteries and the software that can optimize their value for the buildings where they are installed and the grids they’re connected ... Read more ...
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PG&E is testing different flavors of virtual power plant - canarymedia (Feb 20, 2023) |
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Feb 20, 2023 · As a demand-response manager for California utility Pacific Gas & Electric, John Hernandez knows all about how hundreds or thousands of battery-equipped homes can be remotely controlled to serve the grid’s needs, much as central power plants do. These aggregations of controllable home solar-plus-battery systems are called virtual power plants, or VPPs for short.
The question is, what kind of power plants should these VPPs be modeled after? This summer, Hernandez’s team at PG&E will be testing two types of VPPs that use similar tools but different methods to help keep the grid stable during hot summer evenings.
The first VPP, born of a partnership with leading home ... Read more ...
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We need to get fossil gas out of homes, for the climate and our health - canarymedia (Feb 09, 2023) |
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Feb 09, 2023 · This is part of our special series "Home of the Future." Read more.
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On a lazy Sunday morning in October 2018, I grabbed my phone to browse through some news while lying in bed. What I read would change my life. ?“Major climate report describes a strong risk of crisis as early as 2040,” the headline blared. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had just released its most recent report, and its predictions were dire.
Of course, I had known that climate change was a threat, but I had not understood that we could hit 1.5 degrees Celsius of global ... Read more ...
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How to get contractors on board with heat pumps and electrification - canarymedia (Feb 08, 2023) |
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Feb 08, 2023 · This is part of our special series "Home of the Future." Read more.
8 February 2023
Canary Media thanks Sense for its support of the Home of the Future series.
There’s no getting around the fact that the road to electrifying U.S. homes runs through contractors. And it will take a lot more than government incentives or even mandates to get those contractors on board with this transformation that’s vital to fighting climate change.
That’s the view of longtime contractor, building-science consultant and self-styled ?“house whisperer” Nate Adams. He’s the founder of HVAC 2.0, a business that provides software and training for contractors trying to make electric ... Read more ...
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Video: NYC residents have cleaner air after ditching gas stoves - canarymedia (Feb 08, 2023) |
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Feb 08, 2023 · This is part of our special series "Home of the Future." Read more.
8 February 2023
Canary Media thanks Sense for its support of the Home of the Future series.
Last year, Mary Rivera replaced the gas stove in her New York City home with an electric induction version. Rivera, who has asthma, says she soon noticed feeling less congested whenever she cooked inside her public-housing apartment in the Bronx.
“Now I have no cough,” she says in a new video produced by WE ACT for Environmental Justice, a nonprofit group.
The video was released in late January just as America’s kitchen appliances were being thrust into the political spotlight - over the past ... Read more ...
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[ ... ] Rebates for home energy upgrades are coming soon. Here's how to plan - canarymedia (Feb 07, 2023) |
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Feb 07, 2023 · This is part of our special series "Home of the Future." Read more.
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Canary Media thanks Sense for its support of the Home of the Future series.
Americans who want to electrify their homes will soon have access to billions of dollars in federal incentives under the High-Efficiency Electric Home Rebate Act (HEEHRA). Low- and moderate-income households specifically will be able to fetch discounts that sharply reduce the cost of replacing polluting gas stoves and furnaces with cleaner electric appliances and heating systems.
The problem is, nobody knows exactly how soon those incentives will be made available. Congress passed HEEHRA last summer ... Read more ...
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Inside the high-dollar race to sell natural gas as low-carbon - canarymedia (Jan 30, 2023) |
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Jan 30, 2023 · Jeffrey Ball is an award-winning writer whose stories and essays about energy and the environment have appeared in many national magazines. Ball is a lecturer and scholar-in-residence at Stanford and previously was The Wall Street Journal’s environment editor. More about his work is at jeffreyball.net. Follow him at @Jeff_Ball.
This is part one of an in-depth reporting project. Also read part two.
By night, the industrial operation sprawling across the marshland of Louisiana’s southwest tip seems otherworldly. The 1.6-square-mile complex of tubes, tanks and machinery emits a dull hiss, and its thousands of yellowish lights and three flame-topped flare towers cast an ... Read more ...
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Here's a plan for cutting US demand for lithium by up to 90% - canarymedia (Jan 26, 2023) |
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Jan 26, 2023 · This story was first published by Grist.
The effort to shift the U.S. economy off fossil fuels and avoid the most disastrous impacts of climate change hinges on the third element of the periodic table. Lithium, the soft, silvery-white metal used in electric car batteries, was endowed by nature with miraculous properties. At around half a gram per cubic centimeter, it’s the lightest known metal and is extremely energy-dense, making it ideal for manufacturing batteries with long lifespans.
The problem is that lithium comes with its own set of troubles: Mining the metal is often devastating for the environment and the people who live nearby since it’s water-intensive and ... Read more ...
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LNG exports hurt Americans. It's time for the Biden admin to take action - canarymedia (Dec 06, 2022) |
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Dec 06, 2022 · It’s hard to argue that shipping U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) overseas actually benefits the American public. But that hasn’t deterred the U.S. Department of Energy from repeatedly making this weak claim as it rubber-stamps approvals for new LNG-export applications.
It’s time for the Biden administration to change course. LNG exports are driving Americans’ home heating costs to record highs, and planned expansions of LNG-export infrastructure would put the U.S. on a path toward continued fossil-fuel extraction and surging greenhouse gas emissions. Biden’s DOE should take a sharp look at how LNG exports affect the American public. The findings will not be ... Read more ...
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Swell raises $120M for virtual power plants to link solar and batteries - canarymedia (Nov 22, 2022) |
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Nov 22, 2022 · Almost every company in the rooftop-solar and battery space has at least a few virtual power plant projects underway. VPPs control tens, hundreds or thousands of individual home solar and battery systems to turn their collective energy flexibility into megawatt-scale resources for utilities and the grid today - and potentially gigawatt-scale resources in the years to come.
VPP developer Swell Energy is becoming a major player in key U.S. markets like California and Hawaii, by connecting customers who have or want batteries for their solar-equipped homes or businesses, the companies that make those technologies, and the utilities and energy markets that can pay for the grid ... Read more ...
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Thanksgiving conversation starters for clean-energy nerds - canarymedia (Nov 22, 2022) |
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Nov 22, 2022 · Thanksgiving is upon us and food is in the air - in some cases being chucked at priceless works of art.
As you reunite with loved ones and extended family to nibble victuals, someone from another generation or geographical region is sure to put etiquette aside and ask you this uncomfortable question: What theory of change leads from soup splattered on a Van Gogh to the dismantling of the fossil-fuel industrial complex?
What indeed! Rather than tripping down that rabbit hole, change course. Posit, for the purposes of argument, that an effective protest would not seek to ?“raise awareness” that climate change is bad, but rather would target specific obstacles to the clean ... Read more ...
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What challenges will confront DOE loan program for energy retrofits? - canarymedia (Nov 07, 2022) |
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Nov 07, 2022 · Canary Media’s Down to the Wire column tackles the more complicated challenges of decarbonizing our energy systems.
In our previous Down to the Wire column, we walked through the basics of a new federal loan program aimed at transforming old and dirty energy infrastructure into new and clean energy infrastructure. The Section 1706 program, aka the?Energy Infrastructure Reinvestment Program, authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act, enables the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office to make up to $250 billion in loans to companies for qualified projects. The program holds enormous potential to remake the U.S. energy landscape - but in many cases, it won’t be ... Read more ...
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